Senior Engineer, Infrastructure Platform

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What you'll be doing

Fin is hiring a Senior Engineer for its Infra-Platform team to automate infrastructure, drive architectural evolution, and ensure operational excellence. The role focuses on building tooling and platforms for reliability, observability, and secure deployment, leveraging AI and cloud infrastructure expertise.

  • Automate manual, repetitive, and unscalable work in infrastructure
  • Plan, design, and execute architectural changes to core infrastructure
  • Own reliability of core services and engineer preventative solutions
  • Investigate and resolve issues across the stack, including application code
  • Abstract shared concerns like security, compute, availability, and costs
  • Share expertise, review code, and foster a culture of learning
  • Lead complex initiatives, including design, implementation, testing, and operational runbooks

Key requirements

Must-have

  • Multiple years designing, building, and operating high-scale distributed systems and platforms in a cloud environment
  • Accountability for availability, performance, and costs
  • Deep knowledge of modern programming languages

Nice-to-have

  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code

Role signals

Technical focus
infrastructure
Leadership
Mentoring
Architecture / system design
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Full job description

Fin is the AI Customer Agent company on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences.

Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey – from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk for one single system that is designed to meet the needs of modern day support teams.

Founded in 2011, Fin became one of the fastest growing companies and remains one of the largest private software companies in the world with nearly 30,000 global businesses using our products to transform their customer support. Driven by our core values, we push boundaries, build with speed and intensity, and relentlessly deliver incredible value to our customers.

##What's the opportunity?

Fin is the AI Customer Agent company, and our platform is what makes shipping that innovation possible. At Fin, shipping is our heartbeat, and product teams shouldn't have to worry about infrastructure—it should “just work.”

We are hiring a Senior Engineer for the Infra-Platform team, part of our broader Infraservices Group. Our team’s mission is simple but powerful: prevention is better than cure. We provide the tooling and platforms that make reliability, observability, secure deployment, and velocity the default path for every engineer. We make it incredibly easy to do the right thing, and appropriately hard to do the wrong thing. AI is how we live that mission. We don't just build the platform for the AI Customer Agent company, we build with AI. Our engineers use coding agents and self-authored agent skills to automate toil, investigate incidents, and ship faster, and a big part of this role is extending that leverage to the rest of R&D. We expect every engineer here to treat AI as a core part of their toolkit, not an afterthought.

You will be joining a high-performing, high-autonomy team of deeply tenured engineers (our median tenure is five years!) who hold a high bar for execution and collaborative problem-solving. As a Senior Engineer, you will be a critical force-multiplier for the entire R&D organization. You won’t just keep the lights on; you will drive generational changes in our architecture, automate away toil, and eradicate manual work so our product teams can focus entirely on delivering customer value.

Learn how we ship 250 versions of Fin per day, discover our engineering culture at Fin.engineering, and explore our engineering values.

##What you’ll do?

  • Automate everything: Eradicate manual, repetitive, and unscalable work. You will view infrastructure challenges as software problems, building automation and tooling that accelerates R&D.

  • Drive architectural evolution: Plan, design, and execute generational changes to Fin’s core infrastructure. You will navigate complex scaling challenges and build elasticity into our systems.

  • Deliver operational excellence: Own the reliability of our core services. You will respond to operational events, dig deep to understand why they happened, and engineer permanent, preventative solutions.

  • Be full stack: When there is an issue, you don’t stop at the infrastructure layer. You dive deep into our application code to trace problems out to the edge and fix customer-facing issues.

  • Force-multiply through enablement: Abstract away shared concerns like security, compute, availability, and costs, so product engineers don't have to think about them. You'll scale your expertise through exceptional, easy-to-use agent skills, documentation, and reliable defaults.

  • Raise the bar: Hold yourself and your teammates accountable with deep empathy. Share your domain expertise, review code quickly, unblock your peers, and foster a culture of continuous learning and support.

  • Ship production-grade systems: Independently lead complex initiatives, owning the design, implementation, testing, and operational runbooks for high-impact infrastructure projects.

##What skills do I need?

We don’t expect perfection. If you have most of this and you’re excited, we want to hear from you. We can shape the position for the right person.

  • Cloud infrastructure expertise: Multiple years designing, building, and operating high-scale distributed systems and platforms in a cloud environment (ideally AWS), with accountability for availability, performance, and costs.

  • Engineering rigor: Deep knowledge of modern programming languages with infrastructure-as-code as a nice to have. You have a track record of treating infrastructure as a software engineering discipline.

  • Operational obsession: Expert grasp of reliability, performance, and failure modes. You define metrics, question outliers, and rely on telemetry to guide your decisions. You treat uptime as a feature and take immense pride in the resilience of your systems.

  • Developer empathy: You obsess over making things "just work" for your internal customers. You understand the pain points of product developers and know how to eliminate their friction.

  • Execution and ownership: A proven track record of independently driving complex, cross-team technical initiatives from conception to production, often spanning multiple quarters.

  • Clear, timely communication: You write crisp technical docs, run blameless incident reviews, present trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical partners, and thrive in an asynchronous, fast moving, and highly collaborative environment.

##Why join us?

You’ll be the engine that powers every product at Fin. Joining a deeply tenured, highly skilled, and empathetic team means you’ll have the autonomy to make company-wide changes while doing the best work of your career. We prioritize continuous learning and collaborative problem-solving while tackling massive scaling challenges together, and we have a lot of fun doing it.

##Benefits

We are a well treated bunch, with awesome benefits! If there’s something important to you that’s not on this list, talk to us!

  • Competitive salary and equity in a fast-growing start-up

  • We serve lunch every weekday, plus a variety of snack foods and a fully stocked kitchen

  • Regular compensation reviews - we reward great work!

  • Unlimited access to Claude Code and best-in-class AI tools; experimentation & building is encouraged & celebrated.

  • Pension scheme & match up to 4%

  • Peace of mind with life assurance, as well as comprehensive health and dental insurance for you and your dependents

  • Flexible paid time off policy

  • Paid maternity leave, as well as 6 weeks paternity leave for fathers, to let you spend valuable time with your loved ones

  • If you’re cycling, we’ve got you covered on the Cycle-to-Work Scheme. With secure bike storage too

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Policies

Fin has a hybrid working policy. We believe that working in person helps us stay connected, collaborate easier and create a great culture while still providing flexibility to work from home. We expect employees to be in the office at least three days per week.

We have a radically open and accepting culture at Fin. We avoid spending time on divisive subjects to foster a safe and cohesive work environment for everyone. As an organization, our policy is to not advocate on behalf of the company or our employees on any social or political topics out of our internal or external communications. We respect personal opinion and expression on these topics on personal social platforms on personal time, and do not challenge or confront anyone for their views on non-work related topics. Our goal is to focus on doing incredible work to achieve our goals and unite the company through our core values.

Fin values diversity and is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity. Fin will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.

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Your interview focus

Based on this listing, the Senior Engineer, Infrastructure Platform role at Fin focuses on automating infrastructure, driving architectural evolution, and enabling high-velocity, reliable engineering through AI-powered tooling and deep technical expertise.

  • Cloud infrastructure expertise·High
  • Automation and tooling·High
  • Architectural leadership·High
  • Mentorship and enablement·Medium

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Your 30-minute plan

  1. Review Fin's Engineering Culture and Values

    0–7 min

    Read the linked blog posts and product principles to understand the company's approach to shipping, reliability, and innovation.

  2. Prepare Examples of Automation and Architectural Change

    7–15 min

    Select and outline 2-3 impactful stories from your experience that demonstrate automation, architectural evolution, and operational excellence.

  3. Refresh Cloud Infrastructure and AI Automation Knowledge

    15–22 min

    Review best practices for cloud infrastructure (especially AWS) and research how AI can be used for infrastructure automation.

  4. Practice Full-Stack Troubleshooting Scenarios

    22–27 min

    Rehearse explaining incidents where you investigated and resolved issues spanning infrastructure and application layers.

  5. Draft Role-Specific Questions

    27–30 min

    Prepare thoughtful questions about the team's challenges, AI usage, and collaboration to ask during the interview.

Likely questions

, 6 items

Priority reflects how strongly this topic is emphasised in the job listing, not whether it will be asked.

Talking points

, 6 items
  • Cloud Infrastructure at Scale

    You will need to demonstrate experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in a cloud environment, with accountability for availability, performance, and cost.

  • Automation and Tooling

    The role emphasizes eradicating manual work and building automation to accelerate R&D, so be ready to discuss how you've automated infrastructure tasks and improved developer velocity.

  • Architectural Change and Scalability

    You are expected to plan and execute generational changes to core infrastructure, so prepare examples of leading or contributing to major architectural evolutions.

  • Operational Excellence and Incident Response

    Owning reliability and engineering preventative solutions is key; be prepared to discuss how you've handled operational events and implemented lasting fixes.

  • Full-Stack Problem Solving

    The role requires troubleshooting issues that span infrastructure and application code, so have examples ready where you traced and resolved complex, cross-layer problems.

  • Mentorship and Enablement

    You will be expected to share expertise, review code, and foster a culture of learning, so be ready to discuss how you've enabled and mentored other engineers.

What to research

, 4 items
  • Fin's Engineering Culture and Values

    Review the linked resources on Fin's engineering culture, shipping philosophy, and product principles to align your answers with their values.

  • Recent Infrastructure Projects at Fin

    Explore blog posts and case studies about Fin's infrastructure evolution, such as their approach to shipping code and scaling AI-powered systems.

  • Cloud Platform Best Practices

    Refresh your knowledge of best practices for designing, operating, and automating high-scale distributed systems in cloud environments, especially AWS.

  • AI in Infrastructure Automation

    Understand how AI and coding agents can be leveraged to automate infrastructure tasks and incident response, as this is a core part of the role.

Questions to ask

, 6 items
  1. What are the most pressing infrastructure challenges the Infra-Platform team is currently focused on?

    Why ask this? To understand the team's priorities and where you can have the most impact.

  2. How does the team leverage AI and coding agents in day-to-day infrastructure operations?

    Why ask this? To clarify expectations around AI integration and automation in the role.

  3. Can you describe a recent architectural change or initiative led by the Infra-Platform team?

    Why ask this? To gain insight into the scale and complexity of projects you might work on.

  4. How does the team measure success in terms of reliability, velocity, and operational excellence?

    Why ask this? To align your work with the team's metrics and goals.

  5. What opportunities exist for mentoring or enabling other engineers within the broader R&D organization?

    Why ask this? To understand how you can contribute beyond technical delivery.

  6. What is the typical process for responding to and learning from operational incidents?

    Why ask this? To assess the team's approach to incident management and continuous improvement.

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